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I live in the Washington DC area and was driving through Southern Prince George's County and noticed one thing. Nearly everyone in this town (Suitland MD) was Black. I went into a large shopping center and pretty much everyone was Black.
On a business trip out to the San Jose CA area I walked into a large mall and EVERYONE was Asian. I asked about it to the people I worked with in the area and they said," Isn't that exciting, so many people from all over the world are moving to San Jose!" But I got myself in trouble with the politically correct police when I asked why they were all living together in one town, or on one side of town instead of mixing with the American born blacks and whites.
The general feeling is it is perfectly fine when Blacks, Hispanic or Asian immigrants all live in one community or neighborhood but if white people do it it is racist. Why?
I find any single-ethnic neighborhood in a very diverse and mixed country such as the US really odd. Chinatown for instance.
I so dislike gentrification...
I have no comment on the original question at the moment, but for those who like statistics and demographics, this may be of interest:
Hayden Lake, Idaho (99.6 percent white), if you really wanted to go for the gold.
Mackay, ID also looks extremely nice town, judging by some photos on Google images (98.6 percent white). Paris, ID (99.1 percent white) Cottonwood, ID (98 percent white)
While Idaho is not the whitest state (it's high up on the list, though), it boasts some of the whitest towns in the U.S., many of which are in the 99 to almost 100 percent range with Hayden Lake being the whitest.
If any white people wanted to live in a town that is really white, there's some top picks.
I have been analyzing all kinds of data on Midwestern cities and small towns as potential relocation targets, and I stumbled upon many such lily white towns in states such as Indiana or Ohio, too, which is strange given the minority populations of those states as a whole. Just an hour from Indianapolis or Columbus you will find towns with 98% white populations.
When I see a standing American President "fist bump" his stupid wife yes to me that is "acting black". When I see Oprah winfrey go from talking normally with normal pronunciation, grammar etc........to all of a sudden chiming in with a "hey grffrennnnnnnn".....that is "acting" black.
No, that's just "code switching." People of pretty much all backgrounds switch cadence, accent, and so forth, based on who they're dealing with.
And really, we're still calling it a "fist bump"?
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Like I said fo shizzle my nizzle was not invented by whites or mexicans. It's a black thing. Snoop Doggy Dog and all the other black rappers have probably single handedly influenced blacks more than any other cultural revolution.
You know, nobody really did much of that "Fo Shizzle" nonsense, and it mostly died out pretty quickly. And as for "Rap Culture" being the biggest influence on "black culture", um, no. Way off. The civil rights movement, Christianity, now *those* are a massive influence. Actual Hip-Hop culture got influenced far more than it did any influencing.
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I would NEVER imagine a Ron Paul fist bumping his wife on national t.v. Or even Bill Clinton.
Man, that gesture's been around for decades, plenty of white people do it, and have no connection to any so-called "black culture" or black people.
If a neighborhood in California which is only 40% white was almost all white people, people would complain it was not diverse enough or even use the the word racist. But Daly City can be 90% Asian and it is not racist or wrong? Why?
Please talk about areas you actually know something about.
The Bay Area did have a very visible white supremacist presence, especially in the east bay and the peninsula. Oakland used to be the heart of the Bay Area KKK and had as many as 2,000 members at the height of their power in the mid 1920's; they were even electing members into office. Their power continued to grow until they were eventually exposed by the district attorney at the time Earl Warren. Even after they were exposed, though, Oakland remained a segregated city - blacks were only allowed to live in West Oakland by the port - until the late 50's, at which point the often maligned East Oakland was entirely white. There was massive white flight to neighboring suburbs following integration including San Leandro and San Leandro.
20 years later later there was a housing scandal going on in San Leandro; blacks were not allowed to live there. A national study in the 70's even went so far as to say that San Leandro was the most racist suburb in the country. As the government cracked down on housing discrimination in the city, there was massive white flight to outer east bay towns or cities entirely outside of the Bay Area, which is how San Leandro became a very diverse city in the present.
Your suggestion that there is not a very recent history of anti-minority racism perpetrated by whites in the Bay Area - let alone California - only shows how ignorant you are on the subject.
Please by all means, point me to a history book that says the USA was already a country before Europeans founded it.
"USA" today isn't what it was in 1776 or 1789 either, a collection of (previously colonies, and then states). But the fact that this land has been called "Americas" since 1507. Which, by itself has a Spanish etymology.
I think its funny how people try to take credit for something someone in their race invented.
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